On Facebook and Twitter hundreds of thousands saw a video of "Queen Elizabeth feeding vulnerable kids...😭😭😭"
Is this #QueenElizabeth "feeding humans as if they are animals"?
Let's find out! 👇🧵1/...
#OSINT🔎
#Verification 📽️
#HowToOSINT 🧐
Is this #QueenElizabeth "feeding humans as if they are animals"?
Let's find out! 👇🧵1/...
#OSINT🔎
#Verification 📽️
#HowToOSINT 🧐
We take a screenshot of the video and load it into the Russian search engine Yandex. #ReverseImageSearch
This brings us to a site with film recommendations. 🟥2/...
This brings us to a site with film recommendations. 🟥2/...
The French title of that page 👇 reads 'Annamite children collect sapèques for the pagoda of the ladies'.
Sapèque is an ancient Chinese coinage. 🪙
Annamite refers to a mountain range ⛰️ on the border of Vietnam 🇻🇳 and the neighbouring countries of Laos 🇱🇦 and Cambodia 🇰🇭. 3/
Sapèque is an ancient Chinese coinage. 🪙
Annamite refers to a mountain range ⛰️ on the border of Vietnam 🇻🇳 and the neighbouring countries of Laos 🇱🇦 and Cambodia 🇰🇭. 3/
According to the site, this is a short documentary from 1900, filmed by Gabriel Veyre.
The page has a still from the film in ⬛️⬜️(left).
We compare it with the Twitter video (0:13, right).
➡️It appears to be an exact copy, but the Twitter version was coloured in. ✅4/...
The page has a still from the film in ⬛️⬜️(left).
We compare it with the Twitter video (0:13, right).
➡️It appears to be an exact copy, but the Twitter version was coloured in. ✅4/...
On YouTube, we find the video in black and white. 📽️5/...
We also find a colour version with a Vietnamese 🇻🇳 title.
According to the caption, this version is 'a restoration of old footage with AI and machine learning'. 6/...
According to the caption, this version is 'a restoration of old footage with AI and machine learning'. 6/...
The original film is part of the catalogue of the French film company Lumière (1895-1905).
This is the production house of the 🇫🇷 brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière 💡 who, with their cinématographe belonged to the first generation of film makers. 7/...
catalogue-lumiere.com/enfants-annami…
This is the production house of the 🇫🇷 brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière 💡 who, with their cinématographe belonged to the first generation of film makers. 7/...
catalogue-lumiere.com/enfants-annami…
This source confirms the video was shot by the 🇫🇷 film-maker Gabriel Veyre in 1899 or 1900 in Indochina, today's 🇻🇳🇱🇦🇰🇭
"The women throw sapèques at native children. These 🪙, with holes in the middle to make it easier to carry them with 🧵, were of very little value." 8/...
"The women throw sapèques at native children. These 🪙, with holes in the middle to make it easier to carry them with 🧵, were of very little value." 8/...
According to various sources, the women tossing the coins are the wife and daughter of Paul Doumer. 👇
He was French governor in Indochina from 1897 to 1902. The images are therefore part of the colonisation of Indochina by France. 9/...
He was French governor in Indochina from 1897 to 1902. The images are therefore part of the colonisation of Indochina by France. 9/...
CONCLUSION: We do not see Queen Elizabeth II. ❌
She was born on 21 April 1926, some 26 years after the shooting of the film. 🤦10/...
She was born on 21 April 1926, some 26 years after the shooting of the film. 🤦10/...
What have we learned? 👩🏫
1) A Reverse Image Search is a good start, but look for the best sources out there. 🔎
2) It's not because you see colour, the images can't be shot in ⬛️&⬜️
3) Criticism of a colonial past is important, but use valid arguments not nonsense ❌ 11/...
1) A Reverse Image Search is a good start, but look for the best sources out there. 🔎
2) It's not because you see colour, the images can't be shot in ⬛️&⬜️
3) Criticism of a colonial past is important, but use valid arguments not nonsense ❌ 11/...
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